As inspiring a quarter as Q2'16 was, Q3'16 was even better. With 1.135 million units shipped, the market set another record, breaking the 1.1 million mark for the first time. Year-over-year, the market grew at a robust 9.3%, while the less revealing sequential measure (for this cyclical market) was +3.4%. The market for discrete, professional GPUs performed well in the third quarter of 2016, but not as well as the workstation market it serves. All told, the duopoly of AMD and Nvidia shipped around 1.27 million discrete professional-brand GPUs, representing 5.9% growth year over year and a modest 1.8% decline sequentially. Workstation subscribers can download the report here.

Techwatch December 7th 2016

How does a company increase sales in a market where shipments are decreasing?
For those of you who watch Nvidia, you will have taken note of its meteoric rise in share price since September 2015 to date (~$21 to ~$94); the share price has increased about 440%. However, when normalized to Nasdaq, the growth is 323%, as shown in the share-price chart to the right— still damn impressive and better than all of its competitors.
But when you compare the rise in share price to Nvidia’s sales over the same period of time (which are impressive), you see there is a disconnect

One of the pioneers takes a look back
Apple’s QuickTime 1.0 was completed on December 9th 1991, and the 25th anniversary of that game-changing technology is this year. There are very few architectures that anyone can think of that have survived for that period of time and continue to make a
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Subscriptions open the portals for media flow
Today, Adobe is rolling out new improvements in its Creative Cloud services. Because Adobe’s products span so many creative industries — photography, graphic arts, illustration, video production, movie production, marketing, audio, and all the jobs that fit somewhere in between&mdash
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Adding color analysis to color correct makes total sense
Portrait Displays has been supplying visual enhancement software applications and middleware solutions for the computer display industry for almost two decades but didn’t have a closed-loop system. Customers relied on third parties to measure the results (at the screen).
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I’ve gone to COFES for the past 10 or 15 years, I can’t remember, and don’t care. When Brad first started it he tried to get me to come, but I was either too busy or too cheap. When I finally got my lazy butt to
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Every year now for the past seven years Nvidia has presented a GPU conference. The first on in Late September 2008 was named the GPU Technology Conference, and it overwhelmed the Fairmont hotel, and prompting the company to rename it GTC and move it to the convention center. This year
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What's New

The workstation market on a roll with another record in Q3’16 - After a long stretch of up-and-down quarters — never too bearish but never too bullish — Q2'16 broke the workstation market out of the doldrums. Setting a quarterly record for units, it was the best quarter we'd seen in a while. But that record didn't last long ... three months, to be exact. As inspiring a quarter as Q2'16 was, Q3'16 was even better. With 1.135 million units shipped, the market set another record, breaking the 1.1 million mark for the first time. Year-over-year, the market grew at a robust 9.3%, while the less revealing sequential measure (for this cyclical market) was +3.4%.
Subscribers can now download the report on the Workstation Report page.

Subscribers can now download the latest edition of TechWatch and read Jon Peddie's back-page editorial This is such a crazy, exciting industry on the TechWatch product page. And in this weeks issue Intel wants to be admired for its brains

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